Freight-car platform



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T. TRIMBLE.

Freight Gar Platform. No. 240,202. Patented April 12,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS TRIMBLE, OF ALBIA, IOWA.

FREIGHT-CAR PLATFORM.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 240,202, dated April 12, 1881,

Application filed February 23, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS TRIMBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albia,

in the county of Monroe and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Freight-Oar- Platform, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the drawings hereto annexed.

The object of my invention is to provide a removable platform and arm-loop, to be used on freight-cars to prevent accident to life while coupling the cars together.

My invention consists in a light narrow platform removably attached to the outer end of a freight-car, and a suitable loop for the brakemans arm secured to the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an end view of a box-car, showing my improvement; and Fig. 2, a side View ofthe same, partly broken away; Fig. 3, a detail.

A represents the box of a freight-car, provided with staples a and perforations a, through the former of which the perforated uprights b of the platform B are adjustably secured by (No model.)

bolts passing through said perforations. As this platform B is simply to furnish a secure foothold for the brakeman, it is made narrow and correspondingly light, therebybein g adapted for convenient removal when desired. By means of a series of said perforations it may also be adjusted to accommodate cars of different heights. Near the center of the end -of said car-box is a loop, 0, rigidly secured thereto, through which one arm is to be inserted for steadying the operator, while the other is used for coupling the cars.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The adjustable freight-car platform B, in combination with the car-box A, having staples a, perforations a, and arm-loop 0, substantially as shown anddescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

THOMAS TRIMBLE.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN W. H. GRIFFIN, EDWARD A. CANNING. 

